What devices have you owned that most reminded you of the Amiga?

[Aegis]

Hey everyone!

Been thinking about this for a few days now - recently I've been tinkering with my current phone (Samsung Galaxy Ace) - not an all-singing, all-dancing handset by any means, in fact in its original Gingerbread configuration it was pretty slow and dull - but with some research and tinkering I've gotten AOSP Jellybean on there + Link2SD to boost the number of apps I can install and y'know - it's like a brand new phone - gave me a real appreciation of the hardware which whilst limited, can still surprise if you're prepared to invest some time into getting the best out of it.

This got me thinking of my old A4000 which had all kinds of expansions hanging off of it, plus a version of Amiga OS 3.9 which I'd painstakingly optimized - something I simple don't have the incentive to do with my Windows 8 PC (or with many other devices I've owned over the years).

The only other device I've owned that gave me that 'Amiga feel' was another phone - the Nokia 7650 which for its time was an amazing handset - so many cool things you could do with it - I even used the 7650's infrared to region-unlock my (old) standalone DVD-Recorder.

I guess I should note that in the years since the demise of the Amiga, I've had different phones (including several iPhones), consoles, Apple/MS laptops, desktops etc. and yet for me, in all this time, only those two devices gave me that feeling.

So what neat things do you have/have had that give you that same sense of curiosity and appreciation that the Amiga did?

[Aegis]

my macbook pro is rad.
osx snow leopard is da bomb bizzle.

I had a 1st gen Macbook Air running SL and I have to say I was very fond of that laptop - a friend of mine has it now - still going strong!

Samsung Galaxy's are definitley cool, but I'm not in to carring a pocket tv/computer.

Funnily enough, for me it wasn't so much about that (smartphones being cool 'n all) but more along the lines of it being this slightly underspecced piece of hardware that with enough tinkering you could wring minor miracles out of.

After all, there's plenty of very capable smartphones out there that just do what they're supposed to but what feels 'Amiga-like' to me (in this case) is getting it to do things it was never intended to do

Not that I'm a techy or anything but then again, with the Amiga you didn't need to be - it always seemed to strike a fine balance between keeping things simple and elegant yet still allowing you to get your hands dirty and screw everything up

I kinda miss that

Then, pretty much out of the blue someone sent me a copy of BeOS.
It was amazing - it was fast, it multitasked (properly) and didn't crash all the time.  None of these were true for Windows.  After using Windows it felt just like being on an Amiga again.

Never really got into the whole Be thing (was still using my A4000 back then) but someday I'll have a tinker with BeOS - shame it never found its audience, it really was the spiritual successor to AmigaOS.